Jose Arcadio Buendia, the patriarch of the Buendia family, laid the bedrock of Macondo town after dreaming about the City of Mirrors one night. His pledge to recreate the idyllic town of his dream transformed into Macondo, which was destined to brave a hundred transitions. Be it the leadership of the Liberal younger son of the Buendia family, Colonel Aureliano or the autocratic ferocity of the older Arcadio, the town witnessed the family's intervention in all forms. Gradually, with the establishment of ties with the outside world, Macondo was changed bit by bit by the civil wars, marriages and deaths that resulted. Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes a tale about the presence of seven generations of the Buendia family that made Macondo from scratch and eventually led to its nadir despite the original vision of secluding it as a model town. Appreciated for its details, descriptions and layered characters of the Buendia family, this book is considered to be a milestone in Colombian historical literature.